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Definition: Discomfit |
DiscomfitVerb1. Cause to lose one's composure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "discomfit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Synonyms: DiscomfitSynonyms: discompose (v), disconcert (v), untune (v), upset (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disappointment | Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish). |
Success | Defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of court. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Discomfit |
| English words defined with "discomfit": Discomfiting ♦ Outlaugh ♦ Scomfit. (references) |
| "Discomfit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Discomfit" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "discomfit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turbulloj (abash, addle, alarm, confound, confuse, disconcert, disquiet, embarrass, fog, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, perturb, rile, roil, trouble, unhinge, unsettle), shpartalloj (crush, hammer, rout, scatter, shatter, smash, whitewash), prish planet (defeat, disconcert), pësoj disfatë (defeat), hutoj (abash, baffle, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, dash, disarray, disconcert, discountenance, disorient, disorientate, distract, floor, flummox, mystify, overwhelm, perplex, pose, puzzle, wilder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أحبط (anticipate, balk, block, check, damp, defeat, disappoint, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, ruin, scotch, scuttle, torpedo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyhnat (eject, expel, oust, rout, spring, sprout, throw out, turn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناراحت کردن (Discomfort, Disquiet, Distemper, Perturb, Unsettle), خنثی کردن (Annul, Counteract, Counterbalance, Negate, Negation, Neuter, Neutralize, Offset, Stultify, Thwart, Undo), ایجاداشکال کردن , دچارمانع کردن , بطلان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nolata (snub, take a person down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déconcerter (disconcert). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | besiegen (beat, conquer, defeat, down, knock out, overcome, overthrow, put down, repress, subdue, thrash, to conquer, to defeat, to discomfit, vanquish, win over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαστίζω (confuse, feel bewildered, flummox, mystify, nonplus), ματαιώ (defeat, frustrate, thwart), χαλνώ (louse, spoil), ζαλίζω (befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, daze, flummox, mystify, stagger, stun, stupefy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megver (belabor, bludgeon, clobber, defeat, dress down, lick, to belabor, to belabour, to chastise, to cudgel, to defeat, to discomfit, to lay it on sy, to put over, to total, to trounce, to whop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengalahkan (excred, outbid, outdo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sconfiggere (defeat, overcome, overthrow), sconcertare (abash, baffle, be disconcerted, bewilder, confound, confuse, disconcert, discountenance, faze, flummox, nonplus, stagger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iscomfitday desconcertar (abash, appal, baffle, beat, derange, disconcert, discountenance, dismay, disorderly, flummox, outface, put off, puzzle), descolorido (colorless, colourless, discolour, toneless, washed out), derrotar (beat, checkmate, cob, defeat, foil, get up the better, hammer, kill, outmatch, overcome, overpower, pill, pip, scatter, thrash, vanquish, whop, worst). (various references) deruta (baffle, confuse, entangle, foil, mislead, scatter), demonta (disassemble, discountenance, discourage, disjoint, dismantle, dismount, remove, strip, unrig), dejuca (baffle, balk, baulk, counterwork, defeat, disappoint, foil, frustrate, shatter, thwart), zãdãrnici (annihilate, cripple, defeat, destroy, disturb, foil, frustrate, pip, thwart), învinge (beat, best, break through, circumvent, conquer, defeat, dispose, drub, flog, floor, get the better of, knock, master, overcome, overmaster, overpower, pull through, reason down, surmount, thrash, vanquish, whip, win, win over, worst), încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, cumber, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, foul, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, involve, jumble, maze, medley, muddle, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, restrain, shuffle, sputter, stump, tangle, trouble). (various references) расстраивать (baffle, blow up, defeat, detune, disarrange, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, distune, disturb, faze, frustrate, shatter, thwart, unnerve, unsettle, untune, upset). (various references) zbuniti (abash, addle, baffle, befuddle, bemuse, bepuzzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, disconcert, distract, embarrass, faze, maze, nonplus, perplex, perturb, pose, puzzle, rattle, stick, stump), remetiti (counterwork, disturb). (various references) desconcertar en algo (rattle, shake, stump, tell off). (various references) gäcka (balk, cross, disappoint, elude, foil, frustrate). (various references) yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), sinir etmek (annoy, bother, get on one's nerves, irritate, jangle one's nerves, make angry, nettle, peeve, rasp, rattle, rub smb. up the wrong way, string up), mosmor etmek, bozum etmek (embarrass, put to shame), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references) розладнувати (circumvent, counterwork, derange, detune, disarrange, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disturb, frustrate, overset, shatter, unfix, unhinge, unsettle), громити (batter), бентежити (abash, affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, damp, dank, daunt, disarray, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, muddle, overset, perplex, perturb, puddle, puzzle, upturn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | fesen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "discomfit": discomfited, discomfiting, discomfits, discomfiture, discomfitures. (additional references) | |
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"Discomfit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disconfit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-f-i-i-m-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: comfits, disomic, miotics, motific, somitic. | |
-3 letters: comfit, dicots, fistic, idioms, idiots, iodism, miotic, misfit, motifs, sitcom. | |
-4 letters: coifs, dicot, disci, disco, doits, domic, fidos, foist, idiom, idiot, imido, imids, iodic, midis, midst, misdo, mitis, moist, motif, odist, omits, osmic, sodic, stoic, timid. | |
-5 letters: cist, cods, coft, coif, cost, cots, dims, disc, dits, docs, doit. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-f-i-i-m-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: discomfits. | |
+2 letters: discomfited. | |
+3 letters: discomfiting, discomfiture. | |
+4 letters: discomfitures, discomforting, disconformity, misfunctioned, modifications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 63 6F 6D 66 69 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -.-. --- -- ..-. .. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100110 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s c o m f i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0063 006F 006D 0066 0069 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585698179727586 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Indonesian | indonezian, الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, индонезийски език, индонезийски, indonéština, indonéský, indonésan, indonesialainen, indonésien, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійська мова, індонезійський, індонезійка | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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